Re: rule based program for "Deleting repeated members of a list."
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- Subject: [mg82180] Re: rule based program for "Deleting repeated members of a list."
- From: "Jean-Marc Gulliet" <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:08:50 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <fe7j44$qga$1@smc.vnet.net> <fea9ju$k4g$1@smc.vnet.net>
Szabolcs Horvát wrote: > Jean-Marc Gulliet wrote: > > I was wandering why you used b and d as pattern name with a condition on > > them rather than b and c, but I realized that when using c as pattern > > name in place of d the replacement fails. > > > > In[1]:= s = {a, b, c, c, d, e, e, f, g, g, g, h, a, b}; > > Hi, > > You probably noticed this by now, but on the following line there should > be {a,b,d} instead of {a,b,d} > > > s //. {a___, b_, c_, d___} :> {a, b, c} /; b == c > > ---------------------------------------^ > > s //. {a___, b_, c_, d___} :> {a, b, d} /. b === c Hi Szabolcs, Thanks for finding my silly mistake. Best regards, -- Jean-Marc